theyankeesrepublic.blogspot.com - 12/5/2008
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that the hallmark of a “first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Well then, by Fitzgerald’s measure, Brian Cashman belongs among the great geniuses of modern baseball. ...
insider.espn.go.com - 12/5/2008
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Posted by Buster Olney• The Red Sox are
meeting with CC Sabathia sometime in the next few...
days, and so will Yankees GM Brian Cashman , who reportedly met with Scott Boras , the agent for Mark Teixeira and Derek Lowe . It's unclear whether the Red Sox ...
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nydailynews.com - 12/6/2008
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nydailynews.com —
Because free agent pitcher CC Sabathia will be
in Vegas - the site of baseball's winter meetings...
- to attend the Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight, Brian Cashman is hoping to meet with Sabathia to gauge his interest in playing in the Bronx. ...
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Cashman: I'll CC you in Vegas
baseballprospectus.com - 12/6/2008
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Cashman's Contradictions
BASEBALL HOT CORNER —
... Brian Cashman has moves that would make Earl The Pearl Monroe, in his prime, proud. Audacity doesn't begin to describe it. A decade flies by and the contradictions just keep on coming. For a literate update, let's go to The Yankees Republic, and an article titled, "Cash and Burn;Rinse and Repeat": "Brian Cashman belongs among the great geniuses of modern baseball. Witness the contradictions." ...
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